Daughters of CDS Bipin Rawat immerse ashes of parents in Ganga in Haridwar

The daughters of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, who died in an IAF helicopter crash that took place in Tamil Nadu, immersed the ashes of their parents in the Ganga in Haridwar on Saturday afternoon. Earlier in the morning on Saturday, the daughters of CDS General Rawat, Kritika and Tarini, collected the ashes of their parents from Brar Square crematorium in Delhi Cantonment and reached Haridwar to immerse them in the Ganges. Also Read | Of 7 Omicron cases in Pune, 5 tested negative, others stable: Maharashtra Dy CM The two performed the last rites of their parents on Friday. Also Read | Fateh March: After a year-long protest, farmers begin journey back home CDS General Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat were among the 13 persons killed in an IAF helicopter crash near Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on December 8. General Bipin Rawat was cremated side by side on the same pyre with his wife Madhulika Rawat with full military honours at Brar Square crematorium in Delhi Cantonment on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid his last respects to General Bipin Rawat, his wife and other personnel of the Armed Forces. "India will never forget their rich contribution,' he said. On the sad demise of the first CDS, PM Modi said that "I am deeply anguished by the helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu in which we have lost Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and other personnel of the Armed Forces. They served India with utmost diligence. My thoughts are with the bereaved families." -PTC News

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